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The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001 as a philosophy for improving the way software is developed. It was created by 17 authors and has become wildly popular in the software development eco-system. If you’ve heard of Scrum or Kanban, those are implementations of Agile. The authors also agreed on 12 principles. This article will …

The effectiveness of our retrospective meetings had plateaued for the last couple of sprints, but despite that I couldn’t believe for more than a second that we had nothing else to try in order to grow. We had been running with Agile for the last 9 months, but we weren’t coming up with many ideas to try and …

Recently, with little notice, I had to step back from work for a few days (with a 3 day flu on the tail end of it). This occurred from day 4 through day 8 of a 10 day sprint. The whole time I was gone, I was periodically checking my emails to see if everything was ok. …

I posted one of my articles, Sprint planning meeting introductory script, on reddit to try and stir up some conversations, and the following comment by /u/AgileBandit stuck out to me: 3 hours? Why are your Sprint planning sessions taking so long?! Your team would benefit from more frequent backlog grooming sessions to reduce the need for lengthy …

My post Sprint Planning Meeting Introductory Script sparked some conversation with an old schoolmate on facebook, Justin Antoszek. He was describing his department. He’s a senior software developer in an R&D department with 3 teams running 3 different projects that have several people involved in multiple teams depending on which project has the highest priority from sprint to …